Getting personal with your genome, thanks to George Church
George Church
George Church’s pioneering research on the human genome helped launch the Human Genome Project, but mapping the genome was just the start. Now Church’s Personal Genome Project is seeking the next step—allowing individuals to have their own genome sequenced so that they may use this information to understand their risk profiles for disease, their physical & biological characteristics. How could this information help to predict and combat genetic diseases; how could this information be potentially abused by more malicious actors? Church joins Patt to talk about the science and ethics of the personal genome.
Guests:
George Church, professor of molecular genetics at the Harvard Medical School & professor of health sciences & technology at Harvard & MIT; initiator of the Personal Genome Project
- Patt Morrison for February 12, 2010
- Getting personal with your genome, thanks to George Church
- Sam Harris picks a fight with God
- A cure for HIV-AIDS, or at least a vaccine, is on the horizon
- The Edison of our time
- Fear of science
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Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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